Neighborhood:
Foster/Powell After shedding its sinister moniker, Felony Flats, Foster-Powell is finally coming into its own. A pleasing amalgam of old-school and upstart, “FoPo” stands as one of the last semi-affordable real estate bastions left in close-in Portland. (read more) Foster Road is its main hub, chockablock with the usual fast-food suspects, but also sexy little dance studio Tango Berretín (6305 SE Foster Road, 771-7470), dirt-cheap local produce at the Portland Fruit Company (8040 SE Foster Road, 777-0072) and smoked meat galore at Russian deli International Meat & Sausage (4431 SE 64th Ave., 771-7450). New businesses like cozy Euro-pub Cava (5339 SE Foster Road, 206-8615) and adorable bakery Sweetness (3524 SE 52nd Ave., 788-2177) have settled comfortably among stalwarts like Smokey’s Tavern (5522 SE Foster Road, 774-6101). Still, with four lanes and 40 mph speed limits, the neighborhood’s main drags are less than ped-friendly. Look out for traffic while walking down Powell Boulevard to visit gems like the Seven Dees Nursery (6025 SE Powell Blvd., 777-1421), with its vast garden, and ABC Seafood (6509 SE Powell Blvd., 771-5802), where you can walk out with a brown paper sack of live crabs. —Leigh Van Der Werff.
